(Asharq Al-Awsat) Tariq Alhomayed - After hundreds of thousands of Syrians came out to demonstrate in Hama, President Bashar al-Assad relieved the governor of Hama from his duties. The security forces and the army did not interfere with the demonstrators in Hama on Friday; this action is believed to have led to the dismissal of the city's governor. In other words, the governor was not fired because there were large numbers of dead and wounded, rather his offense was allowing peaceful demonstrations to take place. Rather than implement promises of reform, the Syrian regime sacked a governor that protected unarmed demonstrators from the wrath of the security forces.
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